armory refuses to use nonstandard dir

[visdude]

yep, thanks guys

I copied those funky quotes directly from the troubleshooting page

it looks like it is working now

do I delete the folder in appdata now?

I'm glad that you got it to finally work. However, the default folder for Armory is "Armory" and not "armorydb". So in your arg above, it should be "--datadir=”D:\Armory" instead of "--datadir=”D:\armorydb". I suspect that it is still using the default directory so don't delete anything yet. If this is the case, just move the Armory folder from the default directory to D:\, replace the wallet in it with yours and change your arg appropriately as indicated.

[kevinp]

This thread helped me solved a problem with moving the huge Bitcoin Core and Armory databases (150 GB total !!!) off my laptop and onto an external drive.

I am using Windows UNC paths to refer to both locations.

For Bitcoin Core, I modified the shortcut to become:

Code:

"C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -datadir=\\myserver.mycompany.com\DriveE\Bitcoin

For Armory QT, I modified the shortcut to become:

Code:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Armory\ArmoryQt.exe" --satoshi-datadir="\\myserver.mycompany.com\DriveE\Bitcoin" --datadir="\\myserver.mycompany.com\DriveE\Armory"

Note that the Armory shortcut needed to have double quotes for some reason.

This now works perfectly and I was able to delete the original Bitcoin and Armory folders.

Free space at last!  Free space at last!

[goatpig]

Free space at last!  Free space at last!

Upgrade to 0.94

[Right13]

Feature request: please add a config file option --satoshi-datadir.
In current version it's used only when Armory manage bitcoind. But i want to run Bitcoin-qt and Armory same time.
And it's not comfortable to run Armory from terminal with --satoshi-datadir.
Thanks for your work on Armory anyway.
P.S. My OS - Ubuntu 14.04.

[Carlton Banks]

Feature request: please add a config file option --satoshi-datadir.
In current version it's used only when Armory manage bitcoind. But i want to run Bitcoin-qt and Armory same time.
And it's not comfortable to run Armory from terminal with --satoshi-datadir.
Thanks for your work on Armory anyway.
P.S. My OS - Ubuntu 14.04.

Feature exists already, if you don't like using the command line every time, then you can use the command line to solve that problem


From the Terminal:

Code:

sudo vi /usr/share/applications/armory.desktop

or use nano/emacs if you don't like vi


then edit this line

Code:

Exec=/usr/bin/armory %u

to say this instead

Code:

Exec=/usr/bin/armory --satoshi-datadir=<your path to the .bitcoin directory you'd like>

Save the file, and possibly reboot the machine, please confirm in the thread if a reboot is necessary to pick up the new config (I don't use Linux in anything except VM's... so my system is a little different). If anyone knows an alternative command/script that feeds the new config file to application menu GUI (i.e. removing the necessity of a reboot), please let us know.

[Right13]

It's strange, but doesn't work for me.

[Carlton Banks]

It's strange, but doesn't work for me.

You did something wrong.

Are you familiar with Linux text editors? Are you certain you saved the armory.desktop file when you finished editing it?

[Right13]

There is another armory.desktop file at /usr/local/share/applications
Work now. Thanks for advice.
P.S. Reboot unnecessary.

[Carlton Banks]

Excellent, glad to help, and thanks for answering my question about the reboot, and telling us all how you solved the issue ultimately. All useful info for other Ubuntu users.